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TIL the photo on the cover of Neil Young’s Silver and Gold was taken with a Game Boy Camera

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AGvl TIL William Lee was the only one of George Washington’s 124 slaves freed outright in Washington’s will citing “his faithful services during the Revolutionary War”.
5emB TIL over half of all fourth-graders in U.S. public schools received free or subsidized ($0.40) lunches in 2011
78lYZ TIL Michel Fourmont, an antiquarian and French priest, enjoyed destroying antiquities and remnants of ancient Greek cities, including Sparta. Sent by Louis XV to find manuscripts, he turned to marble inscriptions which he defaced after copying them.
70aP TIL that a cat named Simon served on a Royal Navy ship in 1949, and received a medal for raising morale, killing off a rat infestation and surviving cannon shells during his service. Hundreds attended his funeral when he died from infected wounds.
j6eon TIL the New Zealand army helped in making the LOTR films by filling as Soldiers and Orcs